In the spate of recent coverage about “honor killings,” Britain’s first didn’t capture too many headlines until today when the father who killed his daughter is begging to die.

A strict Muslim who slit his daughter’s throat because he believed she had become too Westernised pleaded with the judge to sentence him to death yesterday.

When Abdalla Yones learned that his 16-year-old daughter Heshu had begun seeing a Christian teenager he stabbed her 11 times.

Breaking down the door of the bathroom where she had barricaded herself in fear, he slit her throat, leaving her to bleed to death in the bath.

Yesterday, as the 48-year-old Kurd was sentenced to life after becoming the first person in Britain to admit an “honour killing”, Commander Andy Baker warned that anyone who carried out a similar murder – whether Muslim, Sikh or Christian – would suffer the severest penalties.

Ordinarily, I’m a big proponent of “eye-for-eye” justice. But in this case, I’m torn. Seems like the best punishment here is to make this man live out the rest of his miserable life knowing what he did and being forced to live with it. Maybe even tattooing the girl’s picture on his chest isn’t such a bad idea. If nothing else, he can die slowly from the loss of blood as he tries to cut away the physical reminder of his crime.